Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-21
NOTABLE WOMEN.

MRS ELLIS, ar American woman, is ply
sician to the Queen of Corea, at a salary Of
$4,000 year.
Miss GRACE, sn English cricket player,
recently stayed at the wicket a whole after
noon and scored two hundred and seven
teed runs against the good bowling of four
men.
Miss ALICE NJ. LoNGFELLow, daughter
Of the late poet, has been chosen member
of the Cambridge School committee. Miss
Longfellow is one of the trustees of the
Harvard Annex, and ranks high in all edu-
cational matters.
AMONG the recent graduates of the Wom-
ans Medical College in New York City is
Kin Yamei, a Chinese girl, who had taken
the highest position in the class. She is an
accomplished scholar, able 10 converse and
write accurately in five languages.
TIE Empress Eugene still possesses an
umbrella which cost 1900. The handle is
mass of splendid gems. An umbrella would
seem the last place i'll the world in which
to place gems. One would almost as soon
think of leaving them on ones front stoop.
The Queen, speaking of American woman
writers, says Mrs. Francis Hodgson Bur-
nett is devoted to old armor; Miss Mary l..
Booth, of Hdrger's Bazar, to old coins
Mrs. Frank Leslie, to laces; Jennie June, TO
rare china; Anna Catharine Green, to illu-
minated booles and old missals, and Mrs.
Mary Mapes Dodge, to rare prints.
NILSSON, since her marriage to the Count
Casa Miranda, has set up an establishment
in London and entertains great deal Her
husband was said to be the handsomest
man in Spain when he married the first
time, but at present he looks more like a
German of the brunette type. The Swedish
songstrcss does not dress well; and she
has grown quite stout, and all the mystic
rlous sadness of her shadowy eyes has
given place to commonplace good nature
and placidity.
DoCToR FANNY DIXON, of Chicago, is the
first physician of the gentle sex to be ad-
mltted as member of the International
Medical Congress, recently assembled at
Washington. She is slight, demure little
woman, retring in manner and extremely
modest Her speciality is diseases of tho
eyes. She says that she knows of only two
other oculsts of her own sexi in the country.
One Is Doctor Sargent, of San Francisco,
daughter of the late Senator Sargent, and
the other is a Mi ,higan woman.
Mrs. JOHN TYLER, of Virginia, attracted
good deal of quiet attention at New York
the other day, for the reason that her hus-
band had been President of the United
States. There are five living widows of
Presidents. They are Mrs. Polk, Mrs Lin
soln, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs.
Tyler, of whom the last is the least known.
Mrs. Tyler is well-proportioned, dignified
lady of some sixty years, whose dark COM
pleXlon lends an air of distinction to her
gray hair.
OF the Empress Eugenie Paris corre-
spondent writes: 'She was lately at Am
sterdam, whittier she went to consult a
noted ,Nh1 a.
matism, from which she is a constant suf-
ferer. An American lady who saw her there
says she has grown very stout and intirm,
and has lost every vestige of her once daz-
zhng beauty. She is subject to attacks of
insomnia, during which she will sit the
whole night through before the portrait of the
prince imperial, and these attacks usually
terminate in fits of weeping and acute hys-
teria.''
JAY GoULD's wife is gentle, affable, cour-
teouS, retiring woman She would not be
called handsome woman, yet her face is
more attractive than many beauty's She
Is well educated and possesses an air of re-
fnement. She is shy and does not care for
society. She is the confdant and constant
guardian and companion of her daughter
Nelly,and passes several hours each day with
her two young boys, Frank and Harold. Her
son George IS source of great pride to her.
Mrs. Gould was a Miss Miller, whose father
was successful grocer Of New York She
was brought up sn a well-appointed home,
and has been accustomed to wealth and re-
fnement since her childhood
NINE. PATTLhas fan on which are the au-
tographs of all the soveTeigns of Europe.
Here follows selection Of some: The Car:
Nothing is so soothing as your singing y
The Emperor of Germany: ''To the ever
singing nightingale" Queen Christina: |:
ITO the Spanish woman from Queen who
Is proud to have her for subject" Queen
Victoria: "If King Lear is right in SAYING
that "a sweet voice is precious gift in a
woman, you are the richest of women. -
The Emperor and Empress of Austria have
merely signed. NJ Theirs, at the time he
was PRESIDENT of the Republic, wrote /:
Queen of song, stretch forth INV hand 10
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